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Post by mike on Feb 2, 2024 19:21:32 GMT -5
I just wish it doesn't cook down so much. I'd really love to do a cauliflower crust pizza just loaded with spinach and feta cheese. This is my next Spinach, Bloomsdale.
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Post by swimmom500 on Feb 2, 2024 21:47:56 GMT -5
I just wish it doesn't cook down so much. I'd really love to do a cauliflower crust pizza just loaded with spinach and feta cheese. This is my next Spinach, Bloomsdale. Mine are Burpee Double Choice Hybrid. I bought the seeds last spring. Of course the way my luck has run with Burpee seeds from last year I can’t be sure what they are. I had 2 Burpee peppers that were not what the package said and then my recent Petunia debacle. (Planted 2 packs of the unpelleted Petunia seeds from packages that said pelleted and so far only 3 sprouts. I am not even sure my sprouts are Petunias). Anyway, I digress. My spinach sprouts are only around 1/2 inch so I will leave them a couple more days.
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pfunnyjoy
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Post by pfunnyjoy on Feb 3, 2024 0:03:45 GMT -5
My spinach garden is so gorgeous! I have plucked a few leaves for sandwiches so far. I'm sure if I cooked the entire contents of this Bounty it would be about a quarter of a cup of cooked greens.
I notice that the stems of the spinach plants are very spindly and fragile. Not sure if they will thicken up and be more sturdy before the plants bolt.
Glorious! Can you please share how you get your photo to look natural? Every time I shoot a picture of plants in my Bounty, everything is purple and it drives me crazy! I just made a post asking for help on that very matter, but it looks like you have it down!
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Post by Clovis Sangrail on Feb 3, 2024 0:09:32 GMT -5
You want good spinach? Here's how I cook it. Just posted to the Side Dishes folder in What's Cooking -- Clovis's Tender Green SpinachI learned this from Graham Kerr's book The Galloping Gourmet back in about 1975. Hence the copious amount of butter. Those were different times, indeed. There is a recipe for lemon butter sauce in that book that is so rich it will give you heart palpitations just standing next to it. In other news, I turned this mess -- Into this -- Poblanos on the left and anaheims on the right, with a sad little banana pepper on the far right that only got to stay because it wasn't taking up any critical real estate.
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Post by pfunnyjoy on Feb 3, 2024 0:14:30 GMT -5
I've hopefully rescued my Ground Cherries from a sad fate. I peeked in on them this morning, and they had suddenly developed blotches and the leaves weren't looking so nice! It was one day before nutrients were due, I think they had run through them and were feeding on fumes! So I mixed them new nutrients. The blotches might have been pH issues, but the rinse and refill should take care of that. I will have to check these plants on EC and pH more often. I don't know what they like for feeding, but the leaves are certainly getting large! Roots looked nice and white and good, and nothing was into the sponge or water level indicator, so I left the roots be. Sorry for the very purple picture, I'm not having great luck taking anything natural looking in the Bounty models. I did adjust the tint towards green a bit.
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Post by pfunnyjoy on Feb 3, 2024 2:55:45 GMT -5
The kale have also had an early rinse and refill tonight, as their nutrients were LOW with a week yet before the scheduled feeding! They might have been suffering, as there are some crispy bits on the outer tips of the Russian Red. Another "Feed me, Seymour!" planting.... I'm beginning to wonder if four kale plants are a few too many in the Bounty! They seem a bit boisterous and crowded. And there's a pretty good root mass going, all intertwined. More kale for me to juice though.
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Post by mike on Feb 3, 2024 7:55:03 GMT -5
The photos I take, primarily on the Farms, will get a Magenta hue if I use the AI filters in Photoshop. The settings that many photo apps use to make it easier to process photos often get looks I don't like. I end up just using a 3rd party filter to reduce the haze, that seems to work best.
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Post by pfunnyjoy on Feb 3, 2024 14:25:15 GMT -5
The photos I take, primarily on the Farms, will get a Magenta hue if I use the AI filters in Photoshop. The settings that many photo apps use to make it easier to process photos often get looks I don't like. I end up just using a 3rd party filter to reduce the haze, that seems to work best. What really kills me is that the purple look seems to be a Bounty thing. I guess I can look around for a third party app, but I don't know if it's worth the hassle.
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Post by lynnee on Feb 3, 2024 14:52:02 GMT -5
pfunnyjoy, what kind of camera are you using? I take photos with the camera in my Galaxy phone (S10, now S23). This is a "low light" camera, with editing tools that I never use for color adjustments. You might check your camera app to see what sort of automatic color adjustments it can make.
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Post by pfunnyjoy on Feb 3, 2024 16:53:44 GMT -5
pfunnyjoy , what kind of camera are you using? I take photos with the camera in my Galaxy phone (S10, now S23). This is a "low light" camera, with editing tools that I never use for color adjustments. You might check your camera app to see what sort of automatic color adjustments it can make. Just my Pixel 6A phone with default camera app.
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Post by slw on Feb 3, 2024 21:10:54 GMT -5
Glorious! Can you please share how you get your photo to look natural? Every time I shoot a picture of plants in my Bounty, everything is purple and it drives me crazy! I just made a post asking for help on that very matter, but it looks like you have it down! I get the best color when I turn the garden lights off and open the blinds for lots of natural light. I just use my iPhone camera... nothing special and no photo editing.
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Post by pfunnyjoy on Feb 3, 2024 21:27:57 GMT -5
Glorious! Can you please share how you get your photo to look natural? Every time I shoot a picture of plants in my Bounty, everything is purple and it drives me crazy! I just made a post asking for help on that very matter, but it looks like you have it down! I get the best color when I turn the garden lights off and open the blinds for lots of natural light. I just use my iPhone camera... nothing special and no photo editing. Thanks. Not much for natural light in the basement, but I'll try just turning the garden lights off.
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Post by Clovis Sangrail on Feb 4, 2024 0:11:57 GMT -5
Report from River City -- February 2, 2024 -- I rearranged the kitchen bar counter to shoehorn in one more Harvest so I can plant some tatsoi. Apartment has now reached a point of Aerosaturation. In other news, if you have leftover spinach, check out Clovis's Scrambled Eggs Florentine in the breakfast recipes in What's Cooking?
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Post by Clovis Sangrail on Feb 5, 2024 22:20:09 GMT -5
Report from River City, Feb. 5, 2024 -- The cilantro was in bad need of trimming, so I cut off several good-sized handfuls. Here is the after picture -- Then I made some pico de gallo (don't get it in your eye-o) -- And I made some of Shawn's Pan Bagnat, although I substituted cilantro for the parsley (which I do a lot because I like cilantro much better than I like parsley). They are marinating in the fridge, but they were excited to come out and get their picture taken. They have to stay in the fridge until tomorrow, but there was filling left over, and it was nummy, so -- Thanks, Shawn.
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Post by pfunnyjoy on Feb 5, 2024 22:56:25 GMT -5
MOVING DAY for my pitiful cilantro!It was due for a rinse and refill, so I just rearranged an entire wall of my small office, dragged a folding table up from the basement and made a new home for a couple Aerogarden units. Before:After trimming the pitiful part:I feel like moving the plants to a different room is my last resort. I don't think my nutrients are unreasonable. Please send me some green thumb luck, because I badly need it! Meanwhile, since I'd still like to have an Aerogarden in the kitchen for the extra light, I decided to set up the $76 sale Harvest Elite I got over Christmas along with the microgreens kit I got off eBay. Maybe microgreens will do better in the kitchen? Maybe I'm insane, but I need to find something that will grow in the kitchen....
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Post by pfunnyjoy on Feb 5, 2024 22:57:19 GMT -5
Report from River City, Feb. 5, 2024 -- The cilantro was in bad need of trimming, so I cut off several good-sized handfuls. Here is the after picture -- Then I made some pico de gallo (don't get it in your eye-o) -- And I made some of Shawn's Pan Bagnat, although I substituted cilantro for the parsley (which I do a lot because I like cilantro much better than I like parsley). They are marinating in the fridge, but they were excited to come out and get their picture taken. They have to stay in the fridge until tomorrow, but there was filling left over, and it was nummy, so -- Thanks, Shawn. I am exceedingly envious of your cilantro!
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Post by Clovis Sangrail on Feb 6, 2024 0:27:36 GMT -5
That cilantro is three pods of Calypso from this package -- I got it from Amazon -- Home Grown Heirloom Santos and Calypso Cilantro I gave the seeds a little squeeze until I heard them crack, but I am way too lazy to presoak them. Just standard AG nutrient.
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Post by pfunnyjoy on Feb 6, 2024 15:59:36 GMT -5
Well, I sure hope I can get some cilantro going. So far it has not been smooth sailing!
I just went on an Etsy buying spree. The first thing I wanted to try was some reusable silicone grow mats for the microgreens kit. I love the idea of reusable, cleanable media, remains to be seen how well such a thing actually works, but when they arrive, I'll cut them to fit, see what happens.
Then, I remembered I needed Tatsoi and chard seeds, found a shop with great reviews called TimsTomatos, and did a bit of seed buying, because of a sale! Hard to resist a sale!
I'm not sure what to make of the Chijimisai so far. One pod showed green, but never sprouted. The other had two seedlings, but both were tall and lanky. I removed one, the other flopped and has not gone upright. I think I'll plant a couple more pods, see what happens.
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Post by slw on Feb 6, 2024 17:18:05 GMT -5
I'm getting my seed starter decks ready to start tomatoes, summer squash and cucumbers for my outdoor raised beds. So excited about that!!
My bell pepper plants are doing great; several peppers are about ready to be harvested.
This one was a "cull" from one of the pods in the first pic. This is why I hate tossing the little culls.
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Post by scarfguy on Feb 6, 2024 18:11:35 GMT -5
Love those bell peppers, slw!
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